Naomi 10:45
She hadn't gone after Emily because James had told her not to. He had followed her up from the morgue and told the blonde that she just needed some time alone to mourn. She had agreed, but kept watching her, even as she ran in front of the car.
Now as she held Emily in her arms she wished she hadn't listened to James, maybe if she hadn't Emily would still be alive, but it wasn't his fault. It was those guys who had killed Thomas the night before. Whoever they were, they were the ones who had started the dominoes of death.
James stood behind her crying silently for his sister. Jenna and Rob ran over and started crying again. They all were. Even she could feel the tears now streaking down her face. The Fitch family had lost two of it's own in under two hours and Naomi had lost the only girl, the only person she had ever been in love with. She stood back so Jenna and Rob could get to Emily and then she pulled James into a hug.
It wasn't fair. Emily and her and just sorted things out and now she was gone.
She let go of James and started walking the five minute distance from the hospital to the river.
She reached the river and looked out over it. If there was one thing she knew, it was that she hadn't been lying that day. She would die for Emily Fitch. She couldn't, wouldn't live without her.
She waded into the river and dunked her head under. She tried to breath and swallowed the water. Slowly everything grew darker and finally she passed from the mortal world. She was found an hour later, floating face down, by the police.